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Current students' research projects

Orchan Dede: From an Imperial Vision to A Nation Building Process: The Influence of Ottoman Thinking on Turkey’s Foreign Policy Making Process during the Balkan Conferences and the Balkan Pact of 1934.

Stephen Hastings: The sharing, shaping and development of status and identity in the Megaran Sicilian colony of Selinous and its settlements in the ninth to fourth centuries BC. Also supervised by Dr Caspar Meyer

Anna Gialdini(co-supervised, University of the Arts): A historical, material and cultural analysis of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice

Daisy Livingston(Bloomsbury studentship with SOAS): Archival Practices in The Medieval Arabic Lands (c.1250-1500). Documents and archives at the center and periphery of Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria: Communal and private practices in a diversified literature society

Sue Blunn: Why did the British admire sati in the mid-19th century, a practice they had banned as barbaric in British India in 1829? Widow-burning in the Indian princely states and the question of the limits of cultural toleration.

Helen Carr: How did the British state accommodate Muslims in the education system, c.1970-1997?

Robin Sisson: The relationship between British Trade Unions and black and Asian workers 1968-80.

Nicholas Evans: Stagnation or innovation? The work of the Local Government Board and its Medical Department between 1871 and 1919 and its impact on public health in England. Also supervised by Dr Dora Vargha.

Stephen Hastings: The sharing, shaping and development of status and identity in the Megaran Sicilian colony of Selinous and its settlements in the ninth to fourth centuries BC. Also supervised by Dr Christy Constantakopoulou

Michael Barram: Why were labour relations in the Port of London so troubled in the period 1940-1981, and to what extent did the problems in industrial relations contribute to the closing of the upper port?

Ben Bethell: The classification of first offenders in English prisons, 1879-1967

Darren Bryant: The London Blitz 1940 – 1945: An examination into the diversity of experiences in the communities of London.

Guy Collender: Managing the world's greatest port: the origins and early years of the Port of London Authority, 1899-1939

Colin Del Strother: War for the Souls of London: Evangelicals, Secularists and the Metropolitan Poor 1830-1900